Adobe touts its Firefly AI as more ethical than rivals like Midjourney. But it was actually trained on images from them. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

Adobe Paying for Videos, Images to Train AI Models - pymnts.com/news/artificia…

Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military by Sam Biddle theintercept.com/2024/04/10/mic…

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Meta were willing to buy the company, so they should have been willing to pay for the content they stole ... theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

I expected the FT to do more than just write a press release for OpenAI and Meta. There are many within AI who have serious doubts that AI models will be planning and reasoning any time soon ... But not a mention of this in this puff piece Gary Marcus Financial Times ft.com/content/78834f…

Can AI generate great art? Philosophy professor Margaret Cameron and AI experts Marek Kowalkiewicz and Toby Walsh chat with Paul Barclay at the Melbourne Writers Festival.

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'Either the AI didn’t work, or they didn’t care. It’s the only way to explain the vast number of collateral casualties.  And it seems to be both.'
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Winning Battles, Losing the War: AI & the Most Moral Army In the World digitalnationaus.com.au/news/column-wi…

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Really? Strong claim that it is a net positive ...

'Generative AI is overblown as an election risk, according to Meta’s Nick Clegg, who claims the technology is more useful for defending democracy than attacking it.'
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